Thread: GPE Calendar etc. 2.7 Broken
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mwiktowy is offline mwiktowy
2007-07-31 , 19:02
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Originally Posted by sondjata View Post
I'd like to thank the GPE crew for the 2.7 update which has resulted in an unusable Calendar app and the resulting removal of all GPE software in attempts to get it installed. And the litter of libs left broken on my N800 that I now have to manually uninstall. Not cool. I guess I should be happy that I can uninstall them. Oh!! there goes my low battery indicator from all the install and uninstalls.

Yay!
Did you not read the part where it says:

Note that occasionally there may also be GPE packages in the maemo experimental repository. These are packages which I am testing and are not recommended for anyone to install. In particular, for packages in the maemo experimental repository, I do not guarantee that later packages will always have a strictly higher version number.
... on the Graham's Internet Tablet *Experimental* Repository webpage?

AFAIK, v2.7 is not in the main stable GPE repositories yet.

That being said, while I had to uninstall the old gpe apps and their libraries (all in Blue Pill mode ... no Red Pill needed), the new gpe apps installed and ran just fine after I cleaned out all the old stuff. Since all the data files are kept elsewhere it even maintained all my todo lists, contacts, etc. I expect that when 2.7 is stable and not experimental, it will obsolete your old libs and apps properly. But you shouldn't expect it to do so on an experimental version where you are warned many times that it is experimental. Just provide detailed, non-sarcastic feedback on what broke to the author (his email is on the project webpage http://www.cobb.uk.net/770/experimental.html ) and you will likely get more satisfaction with the next version.

Also, you should install/uninstall while the tablet is charging so that you don't end up borking something if your tablet's power dies while it is modifying an important config file.
 

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